Dr. Alain Delgado Gran
 
Advanced Research Complex ARC, Rm. 409
25 Templeton Street,
Ottawa, ON, Canada.
K1N6N5
Tel. (613)-5625800 ext. 4884
email: agran@uottawa.ca

• Electronic structure calculations in condensed matter physics and quantum chemistry.
• Optical properties of 2D nanomaterials and molecules in dielectric environments.
• Atomic scale quantum dot circuits in Si surface.
• Charge and energy transfer processes in nanocompistes with photovoltaic/biological applications.
• High Performance Computing (HPC) for materials science.

• Amintor Dusko, Alain Delgado, Andre Saraiva, Belita Koiller
  "Adequacy of Si:P chains as Fermi–Hubbard simulators"
  npj Quantum Information, doi:10.1038/s41534-017-0051-1 (2018).


• J. Jadczak, A. Delgado, L. Bryja, Y. S. Huang, P. Hawrylak
  "Robust high-temperature trions emission in monolayers of Mo(S_ySe_1−y )_2 alloys"
  Phys. Rev. B 95, 195427 (2017).


• G. Gil, S. Corni, A. Delgado, A. Bertoni, G. Goldoni
  "Predicting signatures of anisotropic resonance energy transfer in dye-functionalized nanoparticles"
  RSC Advances 6, 104648 (2016).


• A. Delgado, S. Corni, S. Pittalis, C.A. Rozzi
  "Modeling solvation effects in real-space and real-time within Density Functional Approaches"
  J. Chem. Phys. 143, 144111 (2015).


• S. Pittalis, A. Delgado, J. Robin, L. Freimuth, J. Christoffers, C. Lienau, C.A. Rozzi
  "Charge separation dynamics and opto-electronic properties of a diaminoterephthalate-C_60 diad"
  Adv. Funct. Mater. 25, 2047 (2015).


• A. Delgado, S. Corni, G. Goldoni
  "Modeling opto-electronic properties of a dye molecule in proximity of a semiconductor nanoparticle"
  J. Chem. Phys. 139, 024105 (2013).


• A. Delgado, S. Corni, G. Goldoni
  "Low-lying electronic excitations and optical absorption spectra of the black dye sensitizer: a first-principles study"
  Theor. Chem. Acc. 131, 1115 (2012).


• A. Delgado, A. Dominguez, R. Perez, D.J. Lockwood, A. Gonzalez
  "Exact Diagonalization Studies of Inelastic Light Scattering in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots"
  Phys. Rev. B 79, 195318 (2009).


• A. Delgado, A. Gonzalez, D.J. Lockwood
  "Semiquantitative Theory of Electronic Raman Scattering from Medium-Size Quantum Dots"
  Phys. Rev. B 69, 155314 (2004).


• A. Odriazola, A. Delgado, A. Gonzalez
  "Universality in the Energy Spectrum of Medium-Sized Quantum Dots"
  Phys. Rev. B 78, 205320 (2008).

• (2015 - present): Research scientist, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Canada.


• (2012 - 2015): Postdoctoral Research Associate. S3 Center, NRC Institute of Nanosciences, Modena, Italy.


• (2010 - 2012): Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow (FP7). S3 Center, NRC Institute of Nanosciences, Modena, Italy.


• (1998 - 2010): Researcher at the Center of Technical Applications and Nuclear Development, Havana, Cuba.

• 2006: Ph.D. in Physical Sciences, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Havana, Cuba.
  Thesis title: “Inelastic Light Scattering by Electronic Excitations in Artificial Atoms”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Augusto González García.


• 2002: M.Sc. in Physics, Higher Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, Havana, Cuba.
  Thesis title: “Far-Infrared Giant Dipole Resonances in Neutral Quantum Dots”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Augusto González García (ICIMAF).


• 1998: Lic. in Physics, Higher Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, Havana, Cuba.
  Thesis title: “A Quantum Monte Carlo Approach for Computing the Ground State Energy of Many-Electron Quantum Dots”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Augusto González García (ICIMAF), Dr. Roberto Capote Noy (IAEA, Vienna).